​What is life coaching & how does it work?

What is Life Coaching?​

A life coach is a person who provides clients with feedback, guidance and insights from an outside vantage point. It's an ongoing collaboration built on taking action, not just talking about problems. Coaches hold clients accountable for their actions, or lack thereof, towards the life and goals they want to achieve.

Coaching is focused on moving forward, not staying stuck in the past. Though we do address how many belief systems stem from childhood, or even recent past, we do not dwell in the past, the goal is to venture ahead! A great analogy I love about life coaching that describes this is: Imagine yourself driving in a car. While you’re driving it’s sometimes necessary to look in the rear view mirror for various reasons, but while actually moving in the car you never want to look in the rear view mirror for too long. If you do, you could miss seeing everything you're passing by while focusing on everything you've already seen. Worst of all, you could crash your car!

The same goes for life coaching. When you look into the rear view mirror you’re looking into the past, which is more focused upon in other modalities such as counseling, therapy, etc. Life coaching is briefly looking into your past when needed, but then quickly shifting your focus to the present and to the future of what’s ahead. It truly doesn't matter how you got to where you are or who's to blame for how things have turned out. It’s about where you are right NOW, where you want to be and how to get there quickly in order to live the life you've always wanted. Coaches help build this bridge to help you get there.

A Coach helps you create a plan, understand and implement the laws of the Universe while providing motivation and tools to help you change your life and empower yourself! In other words, they are your personal cheerleader, but one that holds you accountable!! YOU really have an infinite wisdom and have all the answers within yourself. I help you see from a different perspective and help you come to your own conclusions and solutions.

So What Does a Law of Attraction Life Coach Do?​

I wholeheartedly believe that you must start with a solid foundation before you can fully realize your goals. I believe this begins with you loving YOU. No matter what your goal is, if your self-worth, self-esteem or worthiness is not in alignment with the goals you are trying to reach, you might as well be a hamster spinning on a wheel going nowhere. In order to be more in alignment with your goals you must raise your vibration before you can really take control over your life.

We are co-creators of our world by virtue of our thoughts and feelings and what sort of energy is transmitted from them. This the basis of work done by a law of attraction life coach. By helping you understand the power of your conscious awareness, they guide you to harness the power of the law of attraction by choosing to go with better feeling thoughts and feelings (like appreciation and joy). Action plans are important only to the extent of the vibrations behind them.

Since vibration management is the work of a law of attraction life coach, you can expect do be engaged in more energy-focused work such as gratitude exercises, meditation and visualization. Once these techniques have been practiced, your energy vibration should have shifted so that you are more aligned with your goals on an energetic level, and not just on a conscious level. Once you are aligned in this way, achieving your goals stops feeling like an uphill battle and more like something you are just naturally able to do. This creates less resistance and more result.

A law of attraction life coach knows that your ultimate goal is to experience joy and be aligned with the universal mind which only knows good feelings. In most cases, this is what the client has been struggling with all their lives, even if they don’t know it. It’s not that traditional goal settingand achievement plans don’t work. But a well trained law of attraction life coach helps a client focus on achieving their ultimate desire of satisfaction and joy without depending on outside circumstances or situations to feel those feelings.

What Life Coaching is NOT​

There’s a difference between coaching, therapy and consult services. Consultants and therapists are the experts. Therapists and psychiatrists work with people who need professional help to work towards healing and recovery. A Coach is not a therapist, but rather a personal growth and empowerment coach. Coaching clients generally accept their past and have a full focus on their present and their future. Coaching is about listening to and responding to you rather than advising or fixing you. It’s not a coach's job to fix or make their clients all better, that is a therapist's job. Life coaches are more than friends with whom to share their problems. They are a sounding board for solutions to the challenges that we face on a daily basis. ​

What Can I Expect From a Session?

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In Law of Attraction Coaching, we don’t just talk. Instead we strategize, plan and implement a program that works for you. We use processes in the session that will help you get to your next level. The topics are geared toward creating your desired life and unblocking the areas where you are remaining stuck. You as the client always lead the focus of every session. After the initial session, I’ll ask you for a progress report and check in at the beginning of each session to establish accountability for the prior steps and to see where you’re at in the process.

Tools and TechniquesThere are many varying techniques and processes that a coach can use and they all have their benefits in their own unique way. Some of the tools that I regularly use are meditations, guided visualizations, asking powerful questions, creating desire statements and affirmations and various “homework” assignments which help to keep you focused on your desires in between sessions.

Home "Growth" WorkThis isn't the homework you were given in high school, this is Growth Work! I regularly like to give clients growth work of some kind to work on between sessions. This could be a continuation of a process I had you start during the session, such as a commitment to starting a gratitude journal or book of positive experiences, repeating affirmations or desire statements created throughout the week, or something completely new. Whatever is given will always be given with the intention of helping you to GROW and work through the process and issues you're focusing on. ​

Call Procedure and Commitment

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I recommend an initial 3-4 month or 12 session commitment with a minimum of 3 weekly sessions per month, though individual hourly sessions are still available. This way you can actually see things change and manifest during the coaching program. Changing behaviors and patterns you may have been repeating now for many, many years, what I like to call "old programming," is a process. Significant change doesn't happen in just a couple of sessions, just like going to the gym 2 or 3 times doesn't get you your ideal body.

​Sessions are done by phone. Generally, calls last about an hour, sometimes longer, if you feel you need additional time. It is important that you are engaging in the process and being fully present without distractions during each session, which is the same commitment I make to you. This isn't just for my benefit, but for yours as well. I truly want you to get the most effective, powerful session you can for your time!